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net: ip_fib: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

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The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:

struct foo {
        int stuff;
        struct boo array[];
};

By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:

"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 7649773293 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Gustavo A. R. Silva 2020-03-02 06:03:52 -06:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 1776658da8
commit a53110609c
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ struct fib_info {
bool nh_updated;
struct nexthop *nh;
struct rcu_head rcu;
struct fib_nh fib_nh[0];
struct fib_nh fib_nh[];
};
@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ struct fib_table {
int tb_num_default;
struct rcu_head rcu;
unsigned long *tb_data;
unsigned long __data[0];
unsigned long __data[];
};
struct fib_dump_filter {